On 26 March 2014 at 17:22, Romain François wrote: | I’d like to compare two strings internally the way R would, so I need Scollate which is not part of the authorized R api. | | So: | - Can Scollate (and perhaps Seql) be promoted to api ? | - If not what are the alternatives ? Using strcmp or stroll does not seem as general as Scollate.
I'd add a third option: - Put this in a new package and register the functions you want. as I don't see a R Core change on the public vs non-public APIs anytime soon. But we have CRAN, and we can cheaply and reliably import functions from other packages. Yes, it is code duplication, but it offers a layer of indirection that permits possibles changes to such an API. I have been meaning to put such a package up for serialization code. It will contain a few lines of C code from base R. Junji and Ei-ji have already placed this in their Rhpc package. I am using them (in yet another copy) in my unfinished Redis package in order to get to serialization from C++. Dirk -- Dirk Eddelbuettel | e...@debian.org | http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
